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Jim Gilbert: Editor, Journalist, Author

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JIM GILBERT’s 35-year career as a journalist and publisher is notable in that he was always able to write about things he truly enjoyed while living in places he genuinely loved. His career began as a weekly reporter and editor on Cape Cod for the Provincetown Advocate, then shifted to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Newport, RI and finally to Ft. Lauderdale, FL, where he was the founding editor-in-chief and ultimately owner of ShowBoats International, which he started in 1988.

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The Big Kahuna: A Video Chat with Pulitzer Prize Recipient William Finnegan

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In April, 2016 WILLIAM FINNEGAN was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir “Barbarian Days:  A Surfing Life.”  Finnegan has been a surfer since growing up in California and Hawaii.  He became a “New Yorker” magazine staff writer in 1987.  In August, 1992 “The New Yorker” published Finnegan’s masterpiece article on surfing titled “Playing Doc’s Games,” which most surfers I know agree is the best surfing article ever written.

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